Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2013

Li-ion battery maker A123 Systems LLC, a newly formed, wholly owned subsidiary of Wanxiang America Corporation, has acquired substantially all of the non-government business assets of bankrupt A123 Systems, Inc. —Pin Ni, president of Wanxiang America. Electric Grid. A123’s joint venture with Shanghai Automotive.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Wanxiang outbid a joint Johnson Controls and NEC offer and a bid from Siemens in an auction held on 6 December for the assets of the bankrupt Li-ion battery maker. based provider of energy-enabled system solutions and energy storage products for commercial, industrial and government agency customers.

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Ni-Li Energy Storage Li-ion Purchase 342

Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

Electrolysis of water to generate hydrogen fuel is an attractive renewable energy storage technology. However, grid-scale freshwater electrolysis would put a heavy strain on vital water resources. Hongjie Dai and his research lab at Stanford University have developed a prototype that can generate hydrogen fuel from seawater.

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Hydrogen Ni-Li Water San Francisco 249

Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2015

Tesla Motor’s Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel signed a 5-year research agreement with Dalhousie University’s Jeff Dahn, Li-ion battery researcher with the Faculty of Science, and his group of students, postdoctoral researchers and technical staff. New Li-ion electrode materials. Theoretical/modeling projects.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2017

In a review paper in the journal Nature Materials , Jean-Marie Tarascon (Professor at College de France and Director of RS2E, French Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage) and Clare Gray (Professor at the University of Cambridge), call for integrating the sustainability of battery materials into the R&D efforts to improve rechargeable batteries.

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Li-ion Ni-Li Batteries Battery 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2012

As an example, the military’s BB-2590 Li-ion battery used in a range of portable systems calls for a cycle life of ≥224 and ≥ 3 years.). LIB capacity is limited in part by the intercalation of Li ions by the anode material—i.e., Envia is targeting its high energy density Li-ion cells at plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2013

When the final funding opportunity announcement is released following this public comment period, DOE will accept applications from industry, national laboratories, and university-led teams to address these challenges and enable technologies that drive innovation in vehicle design. Advanced Climate Control Auxiliary Load Reduction.

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